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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts I and II
by Jack Thorne
AHHHH how do I feel about this book? AHHHH mainly. For a start, I have no idea how to rate it because it's a script, not a novel and I hardly ever read scripts, so I rated it for pure enjoyment rather than quality, which is why I gave it five stars. If I took into account the quality of the writing as a novel it would be much lower, but that's just because there's very little more than dialogue to go on.
This was my main point for the review, the fact that it always felt like there was something missing. All the way through I understood the dialogue and enjoyed the story but it was missing the emotion and intensity of the previous Potter books, which I think would come across more if you saw the stage production. From the dialogue alone the characters were well developed and had distinct personalities as well as purposes, but showed little to no emotion.
As a follow on it was okay. It did manage to tell us a little more about Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny and Draco as they get older but even though the story centers around Albus (Harry and Ginny's second child) and Scropius (Draco and Astoria's only child) I felt I learned more about the adults than the other two. Other characters mentioned such as Rose and Delphi didn't feel as developed. Although Delphi is extremely important to the plot, up to the point where this is revealed she and Rose do just feel like girls to be ogled over rather than actual characters. Though I have to credit J.K for using her classics degree for the use of Delphi's name (also she mentioned the Spartans like twice which made me excited because she actually knew what she was talking about and the Spartans are great).
The plot did feel a little childish in parts compared to the last book but this isn't really a complaint because I know she had to write it bearing in mind families would be watching and reading it, so I can't fault her there it's just something I noticed. Something else I noticed was that there was a lot of subtle references to the novels, these were great and I enjoyed them when they came up but I feel like she held back a bit on these in some places as not the confused newcomers to the Wizarding World.
The plot was far fetched in places and seemed to jump all over the place before the climax at the end, but it was extremely fast paced. There was just enough of the introduction to get to know the character (and let my mind stop screaming to itself about the fact that it was actually reading another Harry Potter book) before the plot started. Although some parts of it did seem written for the pure purpose of making the original novels feel more dramatic as appose to a story in itself, which is something I would have rather read. The characters did manage to feel consistent all the way through however, I feel they acted realistically both in their physical reactions and emotional ones.
Overall this extremely anticipated book didn't necessarily disappoint because I had no idea what to expect in the first place but it did leave me craving something that was missing, which I think was actors but as I haven't seen the play I can't confirm. This truly is a historic book, although it reads like ordinary children's literature, but it really something that will define my generation as being part of such an influential and awesome franchise.
Oh and Albus and Scopius are totally in love and no one will tell me otherwise.
This was my main point for the review, the fact that it always felt like there was something missing. All the way through I understood the dialogue and enjoyed the story but it was missing the emotion and intensity of the previous Potter books, which I think would come across more if you saw the stage production. From the dialogue alone the characters were well developed and had distinct personalities as well as purposes, but showed little to no emotion.
As a follow on it was okay. It did manage to tell us a little more about Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny and Draco as they get older but even though the story centers around Albus (Harry and Ginny's second child) and Scropius (Draco and Astoria's only child) I felt I learned more about the adults than the other two. Other characters mentioned such as Rose and Delphi didn't feel as developed. Although Delphi is extremely important to the plot, up to the point where this is revealed she and Rose do just feel like girls to be ogled over rather than actual characters. Though I have to credit J.K for using her classics degree for the use of Delphi's name (also she mentioned the Spartans like twice which made me excited because she actually knew what she was talking about and the Spartans are great).
The plot did feel a little childish in parts compared to the last book but this isn't really a complaint because I know she had to write it bearing in mind families would be watching and reading it, so I can't fault her there it's just something I noticed. Something else I noticed was that there was a lot of subtle references to the novels, these were great and I enjoyed them when they came up but I feel like she held back a bit on these in some places as not the confused newcomers to the Wizarding World.
The plot was far fetched in places and seemed to jump all over the place before the climax at the end, but it was extremely fast paced. There was just enough of the introduction to get to know the character (and let my mind stop screaming to itself about the fact that it was actually reading another Harry Potter book) before the plot started. Although some parts of it did seem written for the pure purpose of making the original novels feel more dramatic as appose to a story in itself, which is something I would have rather read. The characters did manage to feel consistent all the way through however, I feel they acted realistically both in their physical reactions and emotional ones.
Overall this extremely anticipated book didn't necessarily disappoint because I had no idea what to expect in the first place but it did leave me craving something that was missing, which I think was actors but as I haven't seen the play I can't confirm. This truly is a historic book, although it reads like ordinary children's literature, but it really something that will define my generation as being part of such an influential and awesome franchise.
Oh and Albus and Scopius are totally in love and no one will tell me otherwise.